James Caan

Born 1940 • The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

James Edmund Caan (March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor who was nominated for several awards, including four Golden Globes, an Emmy, and an Oscar. Caan was awarded a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1978. After early roles in Howard Hawks's El Dorado (1966), Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), he came to prominence for playing his signature role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. He reprised the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974) with a cameo appearance at the end. Caan had significant roles in films such as Brian's Song (1971), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Gambler (1974), Rollerball (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Alan J. Pakula's Comes a Horseman (1978). He had sporadically worked in film since the 1980s, with his notable performances including roles in Thief (1981), Gardens of Stone (1987), Misery (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Bottle Rocket (1996), The Yards (2000), Dogville (2003), and Elf (2003).

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2024

Chuck Zito: An American Story

as Self

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2023

Fast Charlie

as Stan Mullen

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2023

King on Screen

as Self

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2021

Queen Bees

as Dan

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2020

JL Family Ranch: The Wedding Gift

as Tap

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2019

Holy Lands

as Harry

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2019

Out of Blue

as Col. Tom Rockwell

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2019

It Takes a Lunatic

as Self

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2018

Con Man

as Agent Gamble

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2017

The Red Maple Leaf

as Senator George Lawrence Secord

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2017

Undercover Grandpa

as Grandpa

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2017

Good Enough

as Roger Flynn

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2016

The Good Neighbor

as Harold Grainey

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2016

J.L. Family Ranch

as Tap

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2015

The Outsider

as Schuuster

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2015

Sicilian Vampire

as Professor Bernard Issaacs

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2015

Wuthering High

as Earnshaw

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2015

The Throwaways

as Lt. Col. Christopher Holden

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2014

A Fighting Man

as Mike 'Brother' Albright

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2014

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

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2014

Altman

as Self

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2014

Preggoland

as Walter

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2013

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

as Tim Lockwood (voice)

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2013

Blood Ties

as Leon

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2013

Seduced and Abandoned

as Self

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2012

Small Apartments

as Mr. Allspice

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2012

The Godfather Legacy

as Self

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2012

For the Love of Money

as Micky

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2012

That's My Boy

as Father McNally

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2011

Detachment

as Mr. Charles Seaboldt

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2011

His Way

as Self

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2010

Henry's Crime

as Max Saltzman

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2009

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

as Tim Lockwood (voice)

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

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2009

Family Guy Presents: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

as Self (voice)

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2009

Mercy

as Gerry Ryan

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2009

Middle Men

as Jerry Haggerty

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2008

The Making of 'Bottle Rocket'

as Self

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2008

New York, I Love You

as Mr. Riccoli, the Pharmacist

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2008

Wisegal

as Salvatore Palmeri

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2008

Get Smart

as The President

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2008

Hollywood Gangster

as Self

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2007

Brando

as Self

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2007

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

as Self

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2006

The Godfather and the Mob

as Self (archive footage)

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2005

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

as —

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2005

Santa's Slay

as Darren Mason

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2004

The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie

as Mr. Harry Dewitt

Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels

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2004

Willie Nelson & Friends: Outlaws & Angels

as —

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2003

Elf

as Walter

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2003

Dogville

as The Big Man

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2003

Jericho Mansions

as Leonard Grey

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2003

Misery Loves Company

as Self

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2002

This Thing of Ours

as Jimmy

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2002

Night at the Golden Eagle

as Prison Warden

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2002

City of Ghosts

as Marvin

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2002

Blood Crime

as Sheriff Morgan McKenna

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2002

Lathe of Heaven

as Dr. William Haber

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2001

Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored

as Self

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2001

A Glimpse of Hell

as Capt. Fred Moosally

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2001

In the Shadows

as Lance Huston

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2001

Dead Simple

as Roy Baker

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2001

Warden of Red Rock

as John Flinders

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2000

Luckytown

as Charlie Doyles

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2000

The Way of the Gun

as Joe Sarno

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2000

The Yards

as Frank Olchin

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1999

The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'

as Self

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1999

Mickey Blue Eyes

as Frank Vitale

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1999

This Is My Father

as Kieran Johnson

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1998

Poodle Springs

as Philip Marlowe

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1997

Howard Hawks: American Artist

as Self

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1996

Bottle Rocket

as Mr. Abe Henry

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1996

Bulletproof

as Frank Colton

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1996

Eraser

as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin

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1996

North Star

as Sean McLennon

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1996

A Boy Called Hate

as Jim

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1993

The Program

as Sam Winters

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1993

Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle

as —

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1993

Flesh and Bone

as Roy Sweeney

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1992

Honeymoon in Vegas

as Tommy Korman

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1992

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

as Sonny Corleone

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1992

Earth and the American Dream

as Reader (voice)

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1991

For the Boys

as Eddie Sparks

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1991

The Dark Backward

as Dr. Scurvy

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1990

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

as Self / Sonny Corleone / Michael Corleone

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1990

Misery

as Paul Sheldon

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1990

Dick Tracy

as Spaldoni

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1988

Alien Nation

as Matthew Sykes

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1987

Gardens of Stone

as Sgt. Clell Hazard

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1985

Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story

as —

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1982

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

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1982

Kiss Me Goodbye

as Jolly

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1981

Bolero

as Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

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1981

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

as Santino "Sonny" Corleone

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1981

Thief

as Frank

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1980

Hide in Plain Sight

as Thomas Hacklin, Jr.

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1979

Playboy's 25th Anniversary Celebration

as Self

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1979

Chapter Two

as George Schneider

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1978

Comes a Horseman

as Frank 'Buck' Athearn

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1977

Another Man, Another Chance

as David Williams

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1977

A Bridge Too Far

as SSgt. Eddie Dohun

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1976

Harry and Walter Go to New York

as Harry Digby

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1976

Silent Movie

as Self

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1975

Rollerball

as Jonathan E.

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1975

The Killer Elite

as Mike Locken

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1975

Funny Lady

as Billy Rose

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1975

Gone with the West

as Jud McGraw

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1975

Funny Girl to Funny Lady

as Self

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1975

From Rome to Rollerball: The Full Circle

as —

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1975

Rickles

as —

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1974

The Gambler

as Axel

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1974

Freebie and the Bean

as Freebie

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1973

Slither

as Dick Kanipsia

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1973

Cinderella Liberty

as John Baggs Jr.

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1972

The Godfather

as Sonny Corleone

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1971

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

as Self

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1971

Brian's Song

as Brian Piccolo

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1971

T.R. Baskin

as Larry Moore

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1970

Rabbit, Run

as Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom

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1969

The Rain People

as Jimmy Kilgannon

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1968

Submarine X-1

as Cmdr. Richard Bolton, RNVR

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1968

Journey to Shiloh

as Buck Burnett

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1967

Countdown

as Lee Stegler

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1967

Games

as Paul Montgomery

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1966

El Dorado

as Mississippi

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1965

The Glory Guys

as Pvt. Anthony Dugan

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1965

Red Line 7000

as Mike

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1964

Lady in a Cage

as Randall Simpson O'Connell